We’re number one! We’re number one!

Folks, as you know, I’ve written at length about some of the serious issues that plague America today. Specifically, them and them. They’re a big part of why people think we’re all fucking idiots.

And as a nation, we’re at a crossroads; we’re still a superpower but our place on the global stage has changed. The rest of the world perceives us as the big bully in the playground. We no longer have the street cred we once had. Our economy is in the toilet and shows no signs of recovery. There is much reason for Americans to be concerned about their future.

But buck up, little campers! I want to remind you about some of the things that still make us the Greatest Country in the World. Writing this post cheered me immensely and I know it will make your hearts swell with patriotic pride:

We are the world’s leading producers, consumers, and exporters of pornography.FUCK YEAH!

Coca-Cola has reached more people worldwide than Jesus. Now you think about that. There are literally more Coke drinkers than Christians in the world. What other country in history can claim THAT kind of power?

There are more UFO sightings reported in the United States each year than in any other country. We may not be popular with the other Earthlings, but ET knows what’s up.

Say what you want about America, we still make a damn fine cigarette. And as a bonus, our cancer sticks have more carcinogens than cigarettes from any other country! That’s some serious potency.

Americans have more plastic surgery than anyone else. Sure, the Brazilians are catching up with us, but I’m not worried. I have faith that my people will continue to lead the world in body dysmorphia for many years to come.

Our ongoing commitment to making the world safe. We kill for peace, bitches.

So go forth, wear those American flag pins, and be proud. We’re still number one.

Weebs, I love your wit and your sarcasm. BTW, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are shows we watch faithfully and laugh at gloriously. They make fun of everyone and everything’s fair game. If we can’t laugh at ourselves and the error of our ways, then what’s the point? Thank you for enlightening me on these facts about my country. Despite all that I’m proud (as I know you are) to be an American but know that we still need to learn a few things, eh? I love sarcasm and you my dear, are a true and Queen smartass. xxoo. If you knew me a bit better, you’d see I am too. ;).

Thank you for the wave at Canada! But we don’t think ALL Americans are fucking idiots – just the ones in government and those who spent their days watching reality TV. You Madam Weebles are one of the reasons I love having the US as our poorly behaved little brother. You raise the bar dear lady.
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It’s folks like you that keep Canada from launching the bomb at you. Sort of like the Sodom and Gamora story…if you can find one worthy human there we will not turn the place into a pillar of salt. Thus far (surprisingly) there still a few creatures over there that count as human. But one more Honey Boo Boo and our technicians will be at work…creating a bomb that will clean the US off the map but leave Disney World and Palm Springs…Gotta have one warm place for us to get to!

Duly noted, Wanda. I’m relieved that this post has helped give us a reprieve. Canada has been a lot more gracious towards us than we would probably be ourselves. Good call on saving some of the warmer spots, though, you’ll still need some sort of warm vacation destination.

hahaha! Our American trajectory for the future is looking really good. Future generations will no doubt be thanking us for all the care we’ve taken in securing a beautiful life for them. I think we can be proud of what we’ve accomplished here. Our work is clearly done.

Now I know for sure I am in the land of the living. I was worried yesterday, but today, today you’ve given me hope for a brighter tomorrow! I bow to you Madame. Grazie!! (Tour-ettes Italian) I took a photo with you in mind while in Italy last week. Look for it…hopefully sometime next week I’ll get my game face on and find it among the some 5000 photos I took on our trip! 🙂
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Hi Honie, welcome home! I hope your trip was great, seeing you here reminds me that I have to go to your blog and see what you wrote about it. I’m looking forward to seeing this photo you speak of–as well as all your other Italy photos. And I’m very glad you enjoyed this post!

I remember someone actually leaving a tooth in cola overnight to see if it really would disolve. It was damaged, but it wasn’t completely gone. (I have a feeling it might have been the Brainiac Science Abuse TV show that did it.) Anyway, that proved that while cola isn’t perhaps the most tooth-friendly drink out there, it’s not quite as bad as some folks would have you believe!

I’m ashamed to say that I never read the Daily Mash. So I’m extremely glad that you introduced me to it—I already love it, just from the stories on the front page right now. But I’ll put The Onion right up there on the same level as the Daily Mash. And now I’m getting hungry.

Thank you for the links to your previous posts. Certainly here in the UK it seems that the USA has some really good telly – but that’s because the UK only imports the good stuff and ignores the trash. I guess it’s easier to be selective about things when there’s a few hundreds of miles between you, right? And the USA certainly has some good points to it, which is worth remembering when the extremists start getting things wrong again.

But… there’s a reason why the car stickers for the UK read GB and not UK. We’re also called Great Britain. Because, well, we’re GREAT. Even if we’re the only ones who think it these days. But without us having had our Empire, well, there wouldn’t be the USA, Australia, cricket (even if our former subjects regularly wipe the floor with us) and the drink of the gods, Gin & Tonic. Or the Commonwealth Games. Or possibly even Europe as we know it…

Great Britain, my friend, is the only reason why the US, Canada, and Australia exist, and largely the reason all of Europe isn’t speaking German right now. And I’m not sure what my dad would do without gin & tonics. Or Benny Hill.

I just had a conversation with a young artist about the difference between Europe, other places and the US. How we sell ourselves short by promoting a youth culture. We talked about this being a young country with an ideology inspired by people coming here with thinking of new beginnings, etc. So, here’s to more new beginnings and more new reality shows!

Sigh. You’re absolutely right in that this country was founded upon the idea of new beginnings, but I hate how new beginnings are now equated with youth. As if all the people who ever did anythng worthwhile in this country were all in their 20s. Meh. Must be our Crone’s disease flaring up again, Sandee.

I think a lot of people think of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that way, Poet McG. I think we’d go bananas if they weren’t around to provide such a good foil. I suppose you’re right about the UFOs. But you guys have crop circles—if I were an alien, I’d be more interested in the crop circles, personally. Actually, are there crop circles in Scotland? Or are they all further south in England and Wales?

Tongue firmly in cheek with the UFO bit. I love the crop circles because they display human artistic ingenuity on a grand scale. Anyone who believes in UFOs, or that they actually make crop circles, is away with the fairies. Crop circles are overwhelming found in the south of England, and their epicentre seems to be the West Country, probably because it has the right sort of cereal crops and landscape for the optimum effect.

I sort of figured you were kidding with the UFO bit… Crop circles really are fascinating—the precision of the designs is impressive. And it’s not as if it’s easy to get a quick sense of how the work is progressing overall, so I respect how they plan it all out.

Oh hells yeah! I didn’t include that one or the fast food one because I figured they were pretty well-known ones, but on the other hand, they’re SO worth bragging about that I should have included them anyway.

The comments are almost as good as the post… have to take you up on the crop circles though – they’re found all over the world including South America, Australia and NZ. Whoever does them is a whizz at geometry…
Don’t you get them in the US – do you lead the world in not having any crop circles????

Mea culpa, Valerie, I didn’t know crop circles were in NZ too, or Australia for that matter. I knew about South America though, I just forgot. They really are impressive. I think we do have crop circle makers here too but it’s not as widespread a thing here. Maybe we’re too geometrically challenged to make crop circles.

And Borowitz! Check out Andy Borowitz. Even funnier than The Onion. And I take exception with the gloom and doom on the economy. Undervalued real estate is selling like hot cakes here in Naperville, Il, the most quintessential of all American suburbs. Why my own house, purchased for more than $300,000 a mere seven years ago could sell in a matter of days for $245,000. Last year, it would have taken 90 days!

Andy Borowitz is funny too, I forgot about him. But my bad, Janice, I didn’t realize the economy was taking off like that in your neck of the woods. Sweet! At this rate we’ll be the most prosperous country on earth by Christmas!

Ohhhh so right about us Canadians failing with satire. We’re a little too soft sometimes and like to say “sorry” a lot. We’re not made for satire. But we try…check out some stuff from the fine Rick Mercer. He’s the best we’ve got!

Don’t sell yourself short, Erica–Canadians do have some good stuff. Kids in the Hall and SCTV are both shows to be proud of, for example. But you folks are a lot more polite than we are in general, that’s very true. And that’s why we love you.

I am surprised no one brought these things up during the debates. I feel like everyone is a little listless in the US, and you need a few reminders of why you’re so motherfucking awesome. I haven’t had a coke in years, but I am going to chug one tonight just for you, America. Weebs for president.

You haven’t had a Coke in years??? That’s right, I forgot, you’re not American. You’re not compelled by law to consume empty calories like we are. Thanks, RG, for your support. It’s Canucks like you that make me so glad we’re neighbors.

I think all countries have just the same amounts of idiots and extremes as we have over here, it’s that we put them on TV more often that really gets us noticed. Check out the guy who died after a live cockroach eating contest.

Sorry … late to the party. Your portion of America is still that the campaign’s aren’t using … what’s up with that. Meanwhile, I’m drinking a true American wine – Zin! … we’ve mastered that one better than elsewhere. Plus I’m watching Castle … oh she’s smokin’ hot! … Oops … she’s Canadian and my TV is Korean. But our TV cabinet is American made with American wood. Cheers to The Onion!

Hope you’re sitting down Weebs but there is one thing we Australians excel at even more than you! Yes, I know it’s hard to believe but… we have the highest carbon footprint – PER CAPITA – of any nation on earth. Lucky there’s only 20 odd million of us. Can you imagine how awesome we’d be with a few more million people?

I need sarcasm font. I would use it all the time. Then on the rare times I’m not being sarcastic, you could tell, because the font would be Comic Sans or something. Also, I want to marry Jon Stewart but I then I remember I have a husband and there might be a problem with that.

Whoever can come up with a suitable sarcasm font would make a bazillion dollars, Alice. I would use it pretty much exclusively. And your husband is a buzzkill if he has a problem with you marrying Jon Stewart.

An experience of nearly getting beaten up in a bar in South Korea through proximity to an American suggests you’re also #1 in forgetting that you’re in someone else’s country. I wouldn’t normally say something like that, but since the current Canadian government is striving mightily to make us the most universally reviled country in the Americas AND the northern hemisphere (we got your carbon footprint RIGHT HERE, Australia!), I figure there’s little I can say that will add to the problem.

On which topic… is there any way we can hybridize Rick Mercer and Jon Stewart to make what should be easily electable as the Emperor of the English-Speaking Americas? I’m not quite as up on my mad science as I’d like.

True, there are many Ugly Americans out there, but I feel compelled to point out Americans don’t have the monopoly on forgetting we’re in someone else’s country….I’ve seen plenty of non-American tourists, both here and abroad, who aren’t exactly poster children for their countries either.

I was so inspired reading this post while smoking my Marlboro and drinking my Coke that I stopped flipping through the latest issue of Hustler, canceled my appointment with the plastic surgeon and went searching for a terrorist to kill in the name of peace. And I’ll do it, too, just as soon as those damned UFOs go away.

Thank you for even mentioning Promethean Times in the same breath as the Daily Show and the Oatmeal (I should have written “sentence” rather than “breath” as I don’t know that the mention occurred in the span of a single breath, and unless you took copious notes it is most likely lost to history). Sorry again for my tardiness. I’m working on my skillz.

I especially like your attitude toward American exceptionalism. I don’t smoke any more, but I definitely remember AMERICAN Spirits with a certain fondness (if I ever find out I have six months to live I’m gonna suck down American Spirit yellows with all the verve of an aspiring porn starlet).

One thing you forgot to mention about American awesomeness–we’re the only country to have a cheese named after it!

Fuck Swiss cheese, man. I don’t like the way it tastes, and it hides condiments for German sausages and stuff but pretends it’s neutral. That’s BULLSHIT. But American cheese? Fuck yeah. Processed, artificially colored, and packaged in individually wrapped slices, just like nature intended.

And you deserve to be in the same category as the Oatmeal and the Daily Show, Smak. You’ve earned it and then some.